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Conference/Seminar Paper Presentations
2024.
Socio-political Changes/Challenges in India and the Gandhian Ideal of Swaraj, National Seminar on Gandhian Satyagraha for 21st Century, Gandhi Study Circle, Department of Political Science & IQAC, Aryabhatta College, University of Delhi, Feb 12-13.
2022.
Vidyapatis Purush Pariksha and its Rediscoveries in Early Twentieth Century, Critical Contours of Maithili Studies, 50th Annual Conference on South Asia (ACSA), University of Wisconsin Madison, Oct 19, VIRTUAL.
2021.
Democratic Politics, Nationalism, and Vernacular Spheres in North India, 26th IPSA World Congress of Political Science, Lisbon, Portugal, July 10-15, VIRTUAL.
Doing Social Science in Indian Languages: Some Methodological Concerns, Social Sciences and the Regional Imagination of India: The Discourses and Practices of Social Science and Philosophical Writing in Our Mother Languages, Raffles University in collaboration with RAYS Global Foundation, USA, July 27, VIRTUAL.
Language Politics, Public Sphere, and Un/Making of a Democratic India, The 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS12) Kyoto, Japan, 24-27 August, VIRTUAL.
Language Politics and the Making of the Maithili Movement, The Indescribable Country: The Literary Identities and Linguistic Ecosystems of Mithila, 49th Annual South Asia Conference Madison, October 22, VIRTUAL.
Maithili and Mithila Beyond its Boundary: Some Critical Reflections, An International Symposium on Language Mapping of Maithili: Beyond the Boundaries, Centre for Studies of Tradition and Systems In Collaboration with Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore and Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga, Dec 12 – 15.
2020.
Mahatma Gandhi and the Idea of Swaraj, International Conference on Mapping the Global Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, ZHDC, DU, Jan 24-25.
Fighting Covid-19: Role of the State and Community, National Seminar on COVID-19 and N E India: Challenges and Way Forward, Department of Political Science, Bodoland University, Assam, May 23, VIRTUAL.
Reassessing the role of Community, Market, and State in response to Covid 19, Two Days International Conference on Redrawing the Domestic Paradigm: Family Bonding, Gender Concerns, PG Govt. College, Sec-11, Chandigarh, July 16-17, VIRTUAL.
2019.
Print and Public Sphere in North India, National Conference on Book History in North East India, Department of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Feb 11-12.
Language Politics, Public Sphere and the Making of a Democratic India, National Seminar on the Idea of India: Intellectual Traditions in India Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, Mar 18-19.
Democracy and Public Institutions in India: 2014-19, A Panel Discussion on Five Years of Modi Rule, Department of HSS, IIT G, May 02.
2018.
Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India, HSS Faculty, Fellows and Scholars Seminar Series, Dept of HSS, IIT Guwahati, Mar 16.
Maithili Movement: Historical Roots and Contemporary Challenges, Madhubani Literature Festival, Dec 19-21.
2017.
Bimal Kumar Matilal, National Seminar on Reimagining South Asia: An Exploration into the History of Ideas, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Feb. 17-18.
Daya Krishna, National Seminar on Reimagining South Asia: An Exploration into the History of Ideas, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Feb. 17-18.
2016.
Indic Traditions of Political Thought in Medieval India: Some Methodological Challenges, National Seminar on Ways of Seeing: Critical Questions on Indian Political Thought, Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi, March 08.
Colonial Discourse on History and Representation of the Self: Mithila in Some Key Historical Texts (1860s-1920s), Eighth Conference on East-West Intercultural Relations, Reconsidering Cultural Ideologies and Identities in India and Beyond, University of California Merced and Ramjas College, University of Delhi at Ramjas College, D. U. India, March 17-18.
British Rule and the Classifications of Indian Languages: Debates over Classical vs Vernacular and Oral vs Written, 22nd Himalayan Language Symposium, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Centre for Linguistic Science and Technology, IIT Guwahati, June 08-10.
Language, Religion, Caste and Conceptions of Desha (Nation): Re-examining the politics of Hindi Public Sphere, The 19th International Conference on Conceptual History on Key Concepts in Times of Crisis, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Sept. 14-16.
2015.
State Reorganisation in India: (Un)viability of New Linguistic States, National Seminar on The Future of Indias Democracy: Social, Economic and Political Aspects, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Jan 30-31.
Marginalisation Within: Formations of and Contestations to the Maithili as a Linguistic Identity, National Seminar on Power, Culture and marginality in India, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, March 16-17.
Language, Nation and the Imaginary of Maithili Identity, Weekly Seminar, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti House, New Delhi on Sept. 08.
2014.
Rabindranath Tagore: Critique of Nationalism, One Day Teachers Workshop on Indian Political Thought, Part-II, Room No. 115, South Campus, University of Delhi, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, February 22.
Jaati, Dharma evam Desha ki Parikalpana: Hindi Jagat ke Hashiye ka Samaj, Two Day Workshop on Bhartiya Bhashaon Mei Samaj Chintan, at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teenmurty House, Delhi, Aug 07-08.
2013.
Hindi Varchasva Banam Maithili Asmita, Yuva Shodha Samvad - 09, Faculty of Arts, Department of Hindi, University of Delhi, March 22.
2012.
Ethnic Identity, Regional Aspirations and Democratic Participation: A Comparative Analysis of Assam and Manipur, National Seminar on Ethnic Politics, Democracy and Regional Political Parties in North East India, Department of Political Science, Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills, Doimukh, Arunachal Pradesh, March 16-18.
Invited lecture/Chair/Discussant/Workshop Participation
2023.
Panel Chair: Political Representation and Democratic Politics in The Digital Age, Graduate Research Meet 2023, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati, Jan 06.
2022.
Positivism and Hermeneutics-I, Positivism and Hermeneutics-II, One Week Workshop on Research Methodology in Social Sciences, Centre for International Relations (CIR), Islamic University of Science and Technology Awantipora, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Feb 01-02. VIRTUAL.
NEP 2020 and the Indian Languages: Making Sense of Emerging Public Spheres in Modern India, International Mother Language Day, Masud Husain Khan Linguistic Society, Department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, Feb 21, VIRTUAL.
2021.
Positivism, Hermeneutics or Interpretative Method, Two Week Virtual International Workshop on Research Methodology & Research Process in Social Sciences, A Faculty Development Programme, IQAC, Womens College, Shillong, July 20 - August 02, VIRTUAL.
Panel Chair: Politics, Governance, and Authoritarianism – I, The 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS12), Kyoto, Japan, August 24-27, VIRTUAL .
Panel Chair: Politics, Governance, and Authoritarianism – II, The 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS12), Kyoto, Japan, August 24-27, VIRTUAL.
Panel Chair: Politics of Language, Environment and Citizenship, Graduate Research Meet 2021, IIT Guwahati, Nov 11-12, VIRTUAL.
2020.
Political Thought and Ideology, Faculty of Law, Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat, Apr 18, VIRTUAL.
Rashtriya Shiksha Niti 2020: Matribhasha Maithili Ke Bhavishya, A Panel Discussion on NEP 2020, Maithili Machan, Madhubani/Delhi. Aug 22, VIRTUAL.
Covid 19 A Global Pandemic: Role of the State, Market, and Community, Political Science Study Forum, Department of Political Science, IQAC, H P B Girl’s College, Golaghat. August 23, VIRTUAL.
2019.
Language, Print and Public Sphere, International Mothers Tongue Day, Perspective, Conference Room, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati, Feb 22.
Panel Chair: Structures of Housing, International Seminar on Locating Neighbourhood in the Global South, Department of Sociology, Tezpur University, September 25-26.
Hind Swaraj and Gandhian Ideal of Swaraj, 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Handique Girls College, Guwahati, Assam, Oct 1.
Language Movement and Indian Democracy, UGC-HRD Faculty Development Programme, Gauhati University, Oct 2.
2018.
Discussant, Colonialism and its Encounter: Revisiting the History of Nepalis in the Brahmaputra Valley and Beyond, 6th International Conference on Northeast India on the theme Locating Northeast India: Human Mobility, Resource Flows, and Spatial Linkages, Dept. of Sociology, Tezpur University, Jan 9-12,
Positivism and Interactive Approaches, Two Weeks Workshop on Capacity Building Programme for Faculty Members in Social Sciences, Conference Hall, IIT Guwahati, Mar 07-18.
Critical Perspectives, Two Weeks Workshop on Capacity Building Programme for Faculty Members in Social Sciences, Conference Hall, IIT Guwahati, Mar 07-18.
Book Discussion: Making of the Maithili Movement, Seminar Room, CSDS Delhi, Wednesday, Mar 28.
Politics: What is it and why do we need it?, Litsoc & Debsoc IIT Guwahati, New SAC, Conference Room, IIT Guwahati, Aug 18.
Meet the Author Programme, Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India: Making of the Maithili Movement, Rickshaw: A Students Collective, Oxford University Press, and South Asian University, FSI Hall, Akbar Bhawan, Chanakyapuri, Delhi, Sept 10.
Language Politics in India and the Hindi heartland: Making of the Maithili Movement, Mapping Knowledge and Practice Project, Foundation for Creative Social Research, Centre for Political Studies, JNU, Sept 11.
2017.
Panel Chair: Radical Thinking in South Asia, National Seminar on Reimagining South Asia: An Exploration into the History of Ideas, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Feb 17-18.
Panel Chair: Politics, Development and People, Graduate Research Meet 2017, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Nov 2.
Ambedkar's Approach to Politics and Annihilation of Caste, Intuition Study Circle, TISS Guwahati, Dec 05.
2016.
Hermeneutics, ICSSR-Sponsored Workshop, Research Method Course/SPSS/Capacity Building for PhD Scholars in Social Science, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, March 14-23.
Panel Chair: Language and Politics, 22nd Himalayan Language Symposium, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Centre for Linguistic Science and Technology, IIT Guwahati, June 08-10.
Panel Chair: Political Parties and Identity Politics, Graduate Research Meet 2016, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, October 22.
Panel Chair: Translation, 38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Nov 10-12.
Panel Chair: Sociolinguistics and Hindi, 38th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Nov 10-12.
2015.
Participant, International Workshop on Law, Institutions and Political Philosophy, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, August 21-22.
Panel Chair: Class and Political Dissent, Graduate Research Meet 2015, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, October 29.
2014.
Maithili Ki Samsamayik Chunautiyan: Vaishwikaran Ke Sandarbh Mei, Workshop on Vaishwikaran ke Sandarbh mei Matribhasha ki Chunauti va Samadhan, Hindi Bhawan, Vishnu Digambar Marg (Near Bal Bhawan), New Delhi, Organised by Maithili Bhojpuri Akademi, Delhi, February 21.
2012.
Participant, National Seminar on Mindscape of Caste: Reconciling Equality and Justice, organized by the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi, March 24-25.
Participant, A month-long workshop at OUCIP, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Theory and Praxis Course - 10, Organized by Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda in Collaboration with OUCIP, Osmania University, Hyderabad, June 18 - July 14.
2011.
Participant, Translation Orientation Programme, organized by the Department of Maithili, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga, Bihar, June 28-29.
2010.
Participant, Prof. Anima Sen Memorial Debate, University Hostel for Women, University of Delhi, Delhi, March 16.
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